Apparatus for movable publicity



June 30,1925. 1,544,435

H. F. E. S. DUSSERIS APPARATUS FOR MOVABLE PUBLICITY Filed April 22. 1924 Patented June 30, 1925.

UNITED APPARATUS FOR MOVABLE PUBLICITY.

Application filed April 22, 1924. Serial No. 708,287.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRI FnANgois ETIENNE SYLVAIN DUSSERIS, a citizen of France, and a resident of Paris,,France, have invented some new and useful Improvementsin Apparatus for Movable Publicity, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to apparatus for movable publicity and its object is to provide more especially improvements in apparatus described in the Patent No. 1,456,- 124.

The apparatus described in said Letters Patent consists mainly of the movable endless element such as a chain Vaucanson or Galle or a roller chain, and of a means destined to support the advertisements on said endless element. This means consisted of a cross-bar passing through a kind of sheath for the fixation of the crossbars on said chains did not prove entirely satisfactory.

The employment of said hooks fixed by simple hooking on necessitates the use of a small sleeve destined to be pushed over the loop in order to avoid the detachment of the chain; this means of establishing connection between the crossbar and the chain was not sufficiently rigid; especially in the case of unrolling the advertisements in a horizontal sense (rather than in the vertical onecase of said Letters Patent) the rigidity in the crossbars was not suflicient to maintain a constant distance between the chains, these chains tending to infiect owing to their own weight.

The present invention provides means avoiding this drawback, and simplifies at the same time the manufacture of the means serving for attachment of the crossbars to the chains.

These means consist in axles mounted on each chain opposite to each other. These axles are prolonged in the direction of the crossbar by a hollow portion receiving the corresponding extremity of the crossbar supported in this manner as by bearings.

In the annexed drawings:

Figures 1 and 2 represent one of the axles in elevation and in a sectional view, these axles cooperating in the mounting of a crossbar on the chains. I

Figure 3 shows the manner of application of said axles to a crossbar supporting an advertisement and fixing the two chains forming a movable element.

In order to apply the specified attachment means it is necessary to remove the rivets from the chain links at the points chosen for the fixation of the orossbarsl. Instead of these rivets a simple axle 1 is mounted into the chain and maintained by a nut 2; the hollow portion 3 of said axle is directed toward the advertisement in order to receive the extremity 5 of the crossbar 4.

On the other chain, opposite the axle 1 of the preceding chain, a similar axle l is mounted, the hollow portion 3 of the same being directed, equally, against the advertisement. In order to mount the crossbar 4 between the axles 1 forming the-attachment means, first one extremity of the crossbar engages the hollow corresponding portion 3 of the axle, and thereupon the other extremity is brought to engage'the hollow portion of the corresponding axle, the chains being kept meanwhile at a distance from each other, as necessary for the. introduction of the considered extremity.

The chains returning to their position olfer a suflicient tension for maintaining the axles against the extremities of the crossbar.

If thechains at-disposal are those with dismountable links, it will be easy for any person to perform the necessary transformations for advertisements carried by chains; to augment or to diminish this surface, according to the engravings or prints destined to appear as advertisements. It will be sufiicient for this purpose to substitute the described hollow axles for the dismountable axles or rivets of the chain links and to place therein the crossbar carrying its advertisement as described in said Letters Patent.

What I claim is In advertising apparatus, a pair of spaced chains, a cross bar between the chains, of less length than the width of the space between the'chains, and provided with'cylinof the chains and provided with bores in drical extremities, axle members extending which the said extremities of said cross bars through openings in certain of the chain are fitted, and nuts screwed on said axle 10 links and pivotally connecting said links tomembers and bearing against the outer sides 5 gether, said axle members having diametrlofthe chains.

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